Why we buy things we don’t ac­tu­al­ly need

We or­der an­oth­er pair of boots, al­though there are al­ready five sim­i­lar pairs in the clos­et. We wait in line for ex­pen­sive cof­fee in pa­per cups. We let our­selves be se­duced by sup­posed bar­gains to make pur­chas­es that we lat­er regret.

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